Word: oak
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Cross a mist-shrouded mountain pasture pitted with craters, past four dead horses eviscerated by scavengers, over a trampled barbed wire fence and you are in Kosovo. A thin trail leads down through light green scrub oak to a rutted dirt road, which in turn winds deeper into the cleft of a narrow valley. The mighty crash of 110-mm mortar rounds resounds from the hillsides, interspersed with the delicate crack of Kalashnikov rifles. Wisps of munitions smoke mix with the low mountain clouds spreading over the Dukadjin plains in the distance. About a mile and a half in stands...
...racially diverse communities--much as Susan Weiss, a Chicago social worker, had to do after acknowledging the negative racial remarks to which her adopted daughters, Indian-born Cathryn, 12, and Peruvian-born Amanda, 7, were subjected in the city. The family moved to a more mixed neighborhood in Oak Park, where, says Weiss, "there are so many parents and kids that don't 'match' that no one notices...
After spending five years as a construction-site manager at Korea's giant conglomerate Samsung, Chung Hwan Oak was used to giving orders, not taking them. So making sales calls for his new catering business was hard on his pride. After bowing deeply, Chung, 49, would pitch his hot-pot lunches--steaming vegetables with shrimp and fiery pepper sauce--then explain how he had lost his Samsung job. Often people slammed the door in his face. Those who listened didn't offer him a chair. The frosty treatment stung, but Chung knew that in status-conscious Korea, Samsung...
...didn't matter. In this neck of the woods, all roads lead to Tufts. I passed a Catholic school where some kids were playing an early afternoon game of pick-up four square, honing their skills for Monday's recess. There was a ramshackle factory, promising animal-friendly oak furniture to the vegan community of New England. Some Tufts policemen waited vigilantly in their cars, eating something white, round, and powdery that I could only wonder about...
Colby College President William Cotter, chairof the Oak Foundation advisory board, could not bereached for comment yesterday